ENGLISH 3DD3 Lecture Notes - Fourth Wall, African Diaspora, Black Canadians
19 Jan 2014
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Presentation look for what common issues may arise out of different research and what the differences are. Creating a sense of comfort with our identity. Create new aesthetics that questions the norms of our social arrangements. Develop a market for the best plays of the international repertoire. Develop canadian theatre as a venue for public discussion of canadian concerns. Many cultures involved in the african diaspora in canada. Blacks first arrived in canada with champlain in 1604. Before that there were preferred nations that canada accepted immigration from. British and french heritage & european countries were privileged in immigration policies. After this there was more immigration from caribbean and african countries. Important to recognize that we"re not talking about homogenous communities, but a diaspora [people who have been forced to leave the countries] Canada suffers from a kind of historical amnesia".
